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SpoGo are looking for the 100 best technology-based ideas to tackle the nation’s best excuses and get more people to enjoy sport and fitness. As long as it’s digital and technological, the most genuine, innovative and fun idea will receive £10,000 to make it a reality. Even if your idea isn’t chosen to win by the tech panel, the most popular idea will win a £1,000prize.

Your idea can be a mobile phone app, social media campaign or web development. And if you already love an existing product or service let us know and we’ll feature the best on spogo.co.uk so even more people can enjoy it. Check out these links for more competition info, inspiration, data sources, and info about spogo.

We’re happy for you to submit ideas about anything, but our theme is ‘tackling the nation’s best excuses’ for not doing exercise.

– Can’t get off the couch? Create an app that knows when you’ve been sitting for too long

– Don’t know how to get to the gym? Use travel data to plan your journey

– Don’t know where to do sport or fitness? Come up with a social media campaign to create awareness for spogo!

Once you’ve entered your idea, don’t forget to tell everyone on your Facebook, Twitter, or blog – let’s get those votes coming in! The competition closes for votes and entries at the end of the Olympics so make sure you get yours in before August 12th.

If you have any questions, you can contact info@spogo.co.uk and they will be happy to help!

To submit an idea, please click the new idea link below. You will then be asked to add a title and choose a campaign for the new idea. You will also have the option to add tags to the idea. To vote on an idea, simply click the up or down thumb to the left of the idea title/description. And to add a comment, click in the box below the idea.

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